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Police Search For Waite Park Armed Robber

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WAITE PARK, Minn. (WCCO) — Police are asking for the public’s help to locate a man suspected of robbing a general store with a semi-automatic handgun.

Officers were dispatched around 8 p.m. Thursday to Casey’s General Store, 561 10th Ave. S. in Waite Park on a report of an armed robbery. Police say a man entered the store with a semi-automatic handgun, demanding money and fled the store after receiving an undisclosed amount of cash.

The robber is described as a 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8 white man in his 20s, between 160 and 180 pounds wearing a dark ski mask, leather jacket with a hood pulled up, dark jeans and dark-colored shoes.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Waite Park Police Department or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-255-1301 or by clicking here.